This Old House | Home Improvement and Remodeling

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Street-Side Gardens: Inspirational, Lawnless Front Yards

Where space is tight, street-side gardens are growing lush with specimen trees, showy shrubs, bold foliage, and riotous blooms

Tom Silva installs a simple glass mosaic tile backsplash

Tom Silva demonstrates how to install a simple glass mosaic tile backsplash

Easy Way to Tile a Backsplash

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Kevin O’Connor finds an expert to settle the question of whether a cast-iron sink can be re-enameled

Face-Lift for an Old Sink

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Use cedar boards to make a table and benches fit to host family and friends for years to come

How to Build a Classic Picnic Table

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Centriq is on a mission to radically simplify your life as a homeowner. Learn how

Centriq | The Ultimate Mobile App for Home Organization, Repair and Maintenance

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This season we took on 2 houses in beautiful Charleston, S.C.

Binge Watch All of the Charleston Episodes

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This Old House cast members lend their expertise to a panel on closing the skills gap in America

TOH took part in a bipartisan event addressing the skills gap in the U.S.—and TOH Insiders were there!

This Old House Goes to Washington, D.C.

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We're bringing back old episodes of The New Yankee Workshop! Watch them on demand

Binge Watch Seasons 1-3 of The New Yankee Workshop

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New Ways to Watch TOH and AskTOH

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Just type House.One into any browser to see our newest offering. Or you could, of course, just click here...

Introducing House One by TOH

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Super fans and This Old House INSIDER membership cardholders got a first look at the home that will be featured...

TOH Fans Attend the Charleston Wrap Party

A Letter from Roger Cook

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TOH heads south with new Generation Next apprentices to restore and renovate two historic homes

The Charleston Houses

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We proudly support the mikeroweWORKS Foundation through our Generation Next campaign. Together, we're...

Generation NEXT

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Find the zone for your town to determine what plants will flourish in your yard.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

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In a new partnership, TOH joins forces with The House Designers to bring you amazing home-building plans. Check it...

NEW! Get TOH-Approved House Plans

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Now you can purchase the project plans featured in full episodes of The New Yankee Workshop

The New Yankee Workshop | Get Norm's Building Plans

Ask This Old House Cast Crew

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Watch NEW Full Episodes of AskTOH

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Every month, Ask This Old House and The Home Depot will present a practical home improvement...

DIY Smarts

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Inspirational home and yard transformations from TOH fans just like you!

Reader Remodels

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It was an honor to work alongside this wonderful young man and such a tragedy to lose him. Austin will always be a...

Austin Wilson: In Memoriam

A new digital media enterprise to deliver branded home-related content, tools, and advertising solutions across the...

This Old House Real Estate Network

Have you spent the weekend—or the past year—working around your house? Become an Insider member and show us what you...

Introducing the Tommy Awards

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Tidy up from top to bottom with help from the pros. Here's just about everything we've got on the topic

Spring Cleaning

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Kids Making It is the organization that turned Austin on to woodworking. They're raising funds to assist Austin's...

Learn More About the Austin Wilson Memorial Fund

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Check out the blunders that unsuspecting home inspectors found on recent home visits ...

Home Inspection Nightmares: Plumbing Edition

hydrangea bushes

These classic flowering shrubs are prized by homeowners from North to South. Here's how to get them to bloom their...

5 Tips for Growing Gorgeous Hydrangeas

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We polled contractors, designers, and other pros for their top tips and insider tricks for getting every detail right

Read This Before You Redo a Bath

Roger Cook shows how to lay sod

Creating a lush, new lawn with This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook

How to Lay Sod

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Our friends at Marvin Windows and Doors are looking to send eight lucky winners to their 3-day intensive seminar on...

Marvin Windows and Doors Immersion Experience

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Keep the area dry for storage or added living space

Add a Drainage System Under Raised Decks

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The best yard redo from the Search for America's Best Remodel 2015

Non-Toxic Garden Shed for Potting Family Edibles

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TOH reader Amy Paladino gets help making a tool bench for her garage from TOH general contractor Tom Silva

How to Build a Tool Bench

Norm Abram and his Pinewood Derby racer

A father, a son, and a blank block of pine: For generations of Cub Scouts, the first time a boy ever took a tool to...

Lessons of the Pinewood Derby

Tom Silva and daughter Kate

Not every new homeowner can get America's top contractor to stop by and offer advice. All the more reason to pay...

Father Knows Best

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Stay out of the sun while enjoying your outdoor rooms

6 Creative Ways to Add Shade Outdoors

Ways to save on your remodel

We canvassed dozens of industry pros to catalog ways you can wrestle your renovation costs back down to earth

21 Ways to Save on Your Remodel

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You spend a third of your life in bed, so finding the right mattress is key to getting your zzzs. Read on for our...

Read This Before You Buy a Mattress

Dandelion (weed wars)

Learn how to identify common lawn and garden invaders, then get pro advice on how to eliminate them forever

How to Get Rid of Weeds

A bland 1980s bath gets transformed into an elegant retreat with large-scale fixtures that make the room feel more...

A Ho-Hum Bath Becomes a Handsome Retreat

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TOH's Team Saturday shows you how to heat up your summer barbeques with this popular beanbag-toss game

How to Build a Cornhole Game Set

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Every month, Ask This Old House and The Home Depot will present a practical home improvement...

DIY Smarts

Tom Silva teaches a homeowner a simple technique for tiling backsplash

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva teaches a homeowner a simple technique for tiling a backsplash.

How to Install a Simple Tile Backsplash

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Not sleeping well? Maybe its time for a mattress upgrade

Find the Perfect Mattress: What to Know Before You Go

Tom Silva demonstrates how to clean and restain a deck

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva breathes new life into a weather-beaten wood deck

How to Clean and Restain a Deck

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Create a perch—or several—for admiring your landscaping handiwork

12 Ways to Add Outdoor Seating

Antique Tool Shopping with Norm Abram

Classic hand tools can be collectible, sure—but don't relegate them to the display shelf just yet. Hit the...

The Beauty of Antique Tools

finished chicken coop built by Tom Silva

Use pressure-treated lumber and PVC trim to create a shelter designed by Tom Silva to keep predators at bay—and...

How to Build a Chicken Coop

Tom Silva and Kevin O'Connor discuss insulating an attic

In this how-to video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor demonstrate the proper way...

How to Insulate an Attic

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In this how-to video, This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook and host Kevin O'Connor share tips for cutting...

How to Use Trees to Save Energy

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Narragansett Idea House 2018 Craftsman-style cottage

We are excited to be partnering with Union Studio and Sweenor Builders for our 2018 TOH Idea House in Narragansett,...

Narragansett Idea House

the 1840s Charleston Single House TOH TV project in Charleston, SC exterior as work begins

TOH heads south with new Generation Next apprentices to restore and renovate two historic homes

The Charleston Houses

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Eight apprentices in our Generation NEXT program will work alongside the TOH master crew to help expand and restore...

The Newton Generation NEXT House

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Prevent Bambi from doing lasting damage to your landscape

20 Ways to Keep Deer Out of Your Yard

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Check out the blunders that unsuspecting home inspectors found on recent home visits ...

Home Inspection Nightmares: Plumbing Edition

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A follow-up on one of those bygone "Save This Old House" beauties we featured in TOH magazine

Saved! Italianate Before and After

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This Old House helped homeowners Judith and Julia restore the Charleston home that Judith spent her childhood summers...

The Elliotborough House | Kevin’s Photo Albums

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